The hunt for information on Joseph B. Wilson has been an interesting one. It started with his gravestone in Fairview Cemetery in Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky. A search of The Courier Journal revealed a small notice about Capt. Joseph B. Wilson’s death in Orlando, Florida, on February […]
Dr. Aquilla Talbott, December 17, 1838 – September 3, 1907. Sallie J. Head, his wife, January 13, 1839 – August 2, 1909. Lexington Cemetery, Fayette County, Kentucky. The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Wednesday, September 4, 1907 Dr. Aquilla Talbott, one of the best-known physicians of Lexington, and […]
Charlotte Olson was kind enough to share photos and information for this post! Stephen Lucas and Nancy Brown are her second great-grandparents. This is the earliest photo of Stephen and Nancy Brown Lucas. In the 1880 Census of Mercer County, Kentucky, Stephen is 40, a farmer, Nancy is […]
from The Harrodsburg Herald, Mercer County, Kentucky Thursday, May 18, 1905 Was At Perryville The death of Dr. Alex A. Farris at Hickman, Kentucky, Monday, was received here with much regret. When quite a young man he entered the Confederate service and was severely wounded at the Battle […]
from Kentucky – A History of the State by Perrin, 1887 Woodford County Nicholas M. Marks, a native of Montgomery, Alabama, was born October 6, 1844, and is the eldest son of Samuel B. and Louisa (Crain) Marks, natives of Georgia. The paternal grandfather was also named Nicholas […]
from Biographical Sketches of Kentucky by Perrin – 1887 Nelson County, Kentucky Honorable John Crepps Wickliffe, United States Attorney for the district of Kentucky, was born in Nelson County, Kentucky, about one mile from Bardstown, July 11, 1830, and is a son of Charles A. and Margaret (Crepps) […]
Henry Plummer, 1834-1904. His wife, Lizzie, 1842-1910, Spring Hill Cemetery, Mercer County, Kentucky from The Harrodsburg Herald, Mercer County, Kentucky Thursday, January 21, 1904 Found Dead in Bed – His Death Causes Much Sorrow The entire community was shocked Wednesday morning by the announcement that Dr. Henry Plummer […]
B. F. Leavell passed away December 25, 1913, and his brother, R. Curt Leavell, who wrote such a lovely and touching remembrance of his brother, himself passed away March 19, 1914. from The Weekly Advance, LaCenter, Ballard County, Kentucky January 2, 1914 B. F. Leavell No More He […]
from The Weekly Advance Ballard County, Kentucky In Memory of J. R. Skaggs On August 20, 1918, at Hinkleville, Ballard County, Kentucky, the relatives, brethren and friends were called together in a funeral service to pay the last debt the living owe to the departing brother. J. R. […]
from Simpson County, Kentucky – Biographies Captain Richard P. Finn was born in Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky, November 9, 1840, and is the youngest of nine children born to John and Frances W. (Bigger) Finn, the former of whom was a native of Cork, Ireland, and the latter […]
Isaiah and Lydia Ross Hill
1929 Wedding
Revolutionary War heroes and families.
Ritchey's Paternal Grandmother
George and Caroline's Wedding Day
Klein Sod House